star. it is 7:30 on sunday, february 19th. i m anne makovec and we have a special guest. and i m frank mallicoat. if i start doing weird things he s already threatened he s probably going to fall off the set at some point. i m looking forward to that. i have everything situated over there. it s a long fall. hey we ve got a lot to talk about. we ve got ryan from cbs radio. and of course jeremy lin everyone is talking about that as well. but what everybody is talking about is the bay bridge. we know the westbound lanes are shut down and it s been causing traffic troubles all over the area. you dealt with some of that this morning. i did. workers on the bay bridge though are ahead of schedule during this weekend s closure. and that means the westbound lanes actually could reopen a few hours earlier than planned on tuesday morning. that s great news for me and everybody else. lisa washington is at toll plaza to update us on the work in progress and she joins us wi
thanks for joining us today. the upper deck of the bay bridge is off limits to drivers. the westbound lanes into san francisco are empty except for some construction crews setting up. it s part of a $6 billion improvement project. more than 200,000 drivers use that bridge every day. the shut down will last until early tuesday morning. lisa washington is live with an update. reporter: good morning. this is the 11th hour that the westbound, the upper deck of the bay bridge has been closed. take a look behind me. you can see the bright lights and the mini many construction vehicles. the work is underway as the crews reconfigure the westbound lanes. here is how it began at 8:00 california highway patrol shut down i-80 westbound. you can see the cones being put into place as officers escorted the last cars over the bridge and into san francisco. as for what happens this weekend, the workers have a detour that will allow them to continue work on the new bay bridge. caltrans exp
we ll take a closer look at it for you, coming up in your complete forecast in just a few minutes. developing news out of the sierra, where a propane explosion has killed one person and forced 38 families to evacuate their homes. the blast happened near a marine corps training base in coleville last night. the home, which was part of a privatized military housing complex, was about 30 miles from that base. the explosion injured two people in addition to the one who was killed. seven homes were damaged. the cause is still under investigation, but it s believed to have been caused by the home s propane distribution system. police and occupy protesters are preparing for another demonstration tonight in oakland. more than 400 people were arrested last weekend. police say protesters threw rocks and bottles at them and there was a break-in at city hall. right now, at least a dozen protesters are under court order to stay away from frank ogawa plaza. hundreds of officers are exp
and broadway. don knapp is following the story for us. reporter: this is round two of this ongoing thing that s been happening since about noon or 1:30 today, when they left the franco go with a plaza, to the convention center, to try to take over the building, but were stopped by police, eventually ending up back at the plaza. at 5:30, while on the air, they formed again and then moved out and went down the street and came here to this park that s in a section of oakland on telegraph and 19th. let s look at that video. what happened here is police came behind them and as they moved down 19th, they got behind them, brought them into the center of the park. as you said, they knocked the fences down. well, it happened once again. take a look at this video. [ no audio ] reporter: there have been arrests. police have been injured. nobody serious so far, and no serious property damage, but looks like they are not ready to stop. they are continuing this action, and i guess th
foreseeable future. we ll have your complete forecast, coming up in just a few minutes. thanks, jim. today, the republican presidential front runners are out looking for support in florida. voters will take part in the primary there on tuesday. susan mcginnis live right now in jacksonville with the latest on the campaign, where immigration issues are taking center stage. good morning, susan. reporter: hi, good morning. that is true. we have mitt romney and newt gingrich, the only two candidates campaigning hard here this weekend, because as you said, this is a winner-take-all state. rick santorum and ron paul figure they won t win here, so they are pretty much skipping it. big focus, latino voters, making up 13% of the 11 million registered voters in this state, making them a main target for the front runners. n] reporter: newt gingrich began his campaign day looking for votes in stewart, florida. i would be delighted to have your help on tuesday and i would be gla